M41A Pulse Rifle from Aliens (1986)

Arcaid

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Hey, I'm gonna spend the next two weeks trying to finish a fully textured and normal mapped gun in PBR from the movie Aliens. Thought I might post my progress on here.

Right now I'm currently working my way through the highpoly. Any feedback is appreciated :thumbup:




Thanks!

3dReaper

Your proportions seem off.

Did you use reference images aside from that one? That specific image you provided is harder to read.

Most notable areas being the carry handle on top and the barrel area.

Arcaid

Worked a bit more on it today and adjusted the topology to fit with the sideplane from feedback :thumbup:

.Wiki

3dReaper wrote: »

The shape of the reciever reminds me of the tompson machine gun . Some reference photos of the thompson could help to get the shapes right .

khelegond

It is indeed based on the Thompson. Link with references:
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/M41A_Pulse_Rifle

Arcaid

Thanks for all the great tips it really helps
Got some time to work on it now in the morning.

Arcaid

So I think I finished the highpoly, I'll be jumping straight into reworking it into lowpoly tomorrow morning, the stripes on the gun handle I think I'll do in zbrush or NDO not sure yet.

Cluly

Looking great so far! Keep at it

Brian "Panda" Choi

You could just use rectangular prisms in Maya for the grip stripes. Would look cleaner and perhaps easier to accomplish as another subdivided model.

Kaine123

It would probably be the easiest solution to bake those lines on the grip in with floating geo.

Arcaid

Sorry for not updating lately, I've been wrestling a bit with the normal map to the lowpoly
but it's getting there I still have a lot of artifacts to go through but here is the progress so far

Nosslak

You could bake a lot of the smaller details (like the ones on the grip) but other than that it looks pretty good.

Arcaid

@Nosslak
Thanks! That really helped bring my polycount down

I've now just started of doing the texture work and looking into getting the materials to read well and to look nice. If you guys have any tips on PBR texturing guns it would be much appreciated :thumbup:

Arcaid

Well I've changed the gloss reflection on the metal, worked on getting the handle to dark plastic and introduced the beginnings of scuff marks on certain small areas as of now.

I'll be working on it tomorrow to make the materials read better and lessen the 'clean' look as I want it too look heavily used.

Nosslak

It looks like a few of your edges are too hard right now, as the highlight is so small that it's very aliased. So I'd try making the bevels a bit bigger, especially the ones on the stock and the various holes in the front, but many of the other edges could use it as well.

Also on the references it looks like there is very little bare metal where pretty much all of it is either plastic or painted metal, so you might want to change the material on the stock and receiver.

Arcaid

@Nosslak
thanks I began reducing the bare metal feel

I've also started working in some scratches and wear in the metal and the handle.

Arcaid

Closing in on final texture.
I plan to be done before tomorrow and start something new next week

Ootrick

Remeber that you basic passes on dDo or whatever texture creator your using will not be enough. Don't rely on using those alone. Get into Photoshop, get some nice functional/technical detail in there. Show us where the parts move/clash together. The top green section by the handle could use some edge work, it reads too soft. It's also lacking your baked AO pass, contrast and large shape details. You have fine and medium details in the texture, add some subtle large shapes (Think cow-hide) if your using dDo. I'd re-asses your color choices too or at-least add some warmth/life to the existing ones. All in all, you've got yourself a great model and a start to a great texture.

Arcaid

@Ootrick
Thanks! I haven't used ddo, it's all made in photoshop. The only software I've used from quixel is ndo2 to convert the handpainted scratches into my normalmap. I'll try to get an AO in, I had some issued before but I'll take another stab at it.

Arcaid

Finished presentation
Thanks everyone for leaving feedback

EwokHolocaust

This looks absolutely stunning and is very accurate. If you are ever interested in designing some of the other Pulse Rifle variants, then my site has an overview.